Where I find images to make into PNGs
Museum / collection websites
Rijksmuseum • Metropolitan Museum of Art • National Gallery of Art • Europeana • Public Domain Review • The British Library • Victoria & Albert Museum • Wellcome Collection • Risd Museum • Phoenix Ancient Art • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden • Georgian National Museum • Internet Archive • Getty Images • Louvre • Statens Historiska Muséer • Museum of Applied Arts • Royal Collection Trust • The Walters Art Museum • Science Museum Group • Kunst Historiches Museum Wien • The David Collection • MAK collection
+ pretty much any museum site with a virtual collection
Auction websites
1stDibs • Sothebys • Ruby Lane • Live Auctioneers • Christie’s • Timeline Auctions • Heritage Auctions • Auctionet • Hindman Auctions
Various
My pinterest • Worthpoint • Etsy • Shoplook • Wikimedia Commons • Replacements
Any site with a search-by-image function (Google Lens, Yandex etc) > “find image source” > “visually similar images”
Other PNG blogs
goobersplat • gooberscollage • vile-things • encyclopaedia-ornithonesiae • oceantoyz • transparensies • png-magician • whizpurr • adjpngs • transpareats • transparentstickers • transparenzz • pngtrash • fruit-prince • honeyrolls • bleedingthroughteeth • png-heaven • dolldmg • starrypngs
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(I will be updating this list! If you have suggestions or would like to add or remove your blog from the list, message me)
huge fan of your work, when i followed u on pinterest for collage inspo i saw u have a nausicaä board!!!!! it's my favorite movie & manga & piece of media so i was overjoyed... so i must ask for nausicaä themed pngs... bugs, ohmu, teto, anything that puts u in mind of nausicaä would bring me so much joy
Done 🌟
Nausicaä is one of my favorites as well! If you haven’t already read it, I recommend Shuna’s Journey (you can read it for free here) also by Miyazaki, it has a similar kind of feeling.
Oh, and let me take this opportunity to show you a cross stitch ohmu I made:
Nausicaä-inspired PNGs, part 2
(1. 17th c. pilgrim flask, 2. Brush-footed butterfly egg, 3. Ohmu illustration, 4. God Warrior tapestry illustration, 5. Inside the God Warrior illustration, 6. Soil centipede (?), 7. “Woman with owl” by Kiki Smith, 8. Beetle belt buckle, 9. God Warrior tapestry illustration)
Nausicaä-inspired PNGs, part 1
(1. Spores, 2. “Mistletoe Parasite” from the Fantasy Specimen Museum, 3. Ohmu figurine, 4. Dorstenia hildebrandtii, 5. Mycena subcyanocephala, 6. “Fate” porcelain mask by Richard Garbe (1921), 7. Permian bronze bird cast (3rd–12th c.) 8. Protozoan stentor floating colony, 9. Anomalocaris canadensis)
another commission using @snailspng’s pngs for my friends anniversary:-) third time remaking it because it got stolen by the delivery person twice lmfao so lets all pray collectively she makes it to NY :-)
finally got the hands on this shelf thing (used mostly @snailspng images. thank you so much!!)
Random PNGs, part 218
(1. Perfume bottle by Julien Viard, 2. Diptych compass and sundial from c. 1595, 3. Astrology map, 4. Half-moon banjo, 5. Illustration from manuscript “La Sfera”, 6. “Étoile cosmique” by Raymond Roussel from 1923, 7. Illustration by Cesare Ripa, 8. Constellation Cygnus from medieval manuscript, 9. Medieval signet ring)
Random PNGs, part 217
(1. Spiral of shells, 2. Janus head from whale vertebrae, 3. Crinoid fossils, 4. Ceramic art by Dominique Mercadal, 5. Glass model of amoebae by Leopold & Rudolf Blaschka, 6. Slime mold (Stemonitis), 7. Hakutaku by Miyagi Gengyo (1958), 8. Slime mold (Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa), 9. Yup'ik seal float (?))
Random PNGs, part 216
(1. Wooden dachshund toy by Gvozdariki, 2. Chalcedony inscribed with cuneiform (1300 BCE), 3. Seashell, 4. Delftware swirl mudlarking find, 5. Illustration from “Book of Hare Stories” by Tom Seidmann-Freud (1924), 6. Wooden cat by Gvozdariki, 7. Rabbit coin bank, 8. Mirror by atelier Mithe Espelt, 9. “Lunar Hare” by Georgina Warne)
